A young woman came to my clinic on recent evening to discuss her irregular menstrual periods. She had scheduled the appointment weeks in advance, and we were slated to have 20 minutes together. I’m a family physician in a busy urban practice, and when she walked in I’d already been seeing patients for 10 hours … Continue reading Good Medical Care Can Suffer Late In The Day
A Summer Family Recipe: Basil Chocolate Cake
I’ve known and loved this cake for at least 25 years! It was one of my mom’s signature summer desserts. She loved whipping it up to show off the many varieties of basils she grew in her garden, often using a mix of cinnamon, Genovese, and purple basils. The recipe calls for a whole whopping … Continue reading A Summer Family Recipe: Basil Chocolate Cake
Lemon Posset with Berries
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Helping Your Child Make New Friends
Most child development milestones are monitored closely by parents from a very young age: Can my child walk? Check! Use a cup to drink? Check! Jump on one foot? Recite the ABCs? Check and check! Then there are child development “soft skills”—social and emotional skills that can be harder to judge and even more challenging … Continue reading Helping Your Child Make New Friends
A Guide To Navigating Birth Control
Birth control is so personal. I’m a family physician, and I talk to my patients about birth control all the time. And the more I do it, the more I’ve come to realize that no two patients are alike. Choosing a method of contraception is a really intimate decision. It’s also a decision that’s about … Continue reading A Guide To Navigating Birth Control
Survival Of The Friendliest: How Our Close Friendships Help Us Thrive
Lydia Denworth wants you to make more time for your friends. We don’t fully appreciate our friendships, says the science writer and author of the new book Friendship: The Evolution, Biology, and Extraordinary Power of Life’s Fundamental Bond. If we did, we’d take cultivating those intimate bonds as seriously as working out or eating well. Because, she … Continue reading Survival Of The Friendliest: How Our Close Friendships Help Us Thrive